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[Antonio García Jiménez]

The VM script is iconic in nature. I mean, the scribe or scribes try to graphically reproduce celestial movements, especially the Sun and the Moon. Is the reason why we see so many symbols with different shapes and combinations of shapes.

There are benched gallows that have a glyph c underneath, between the c's of the bench. I think it is the iconic way of representing the transit of the Moon in front of the Sun.
 There are also gallows that have a glyph c under the legs. The t and k gallows have the c under the right leg. They are connected, there is communication, there is no eclipse. On the contrary, in the case of p and f gallows, the glyph c, the Moon, is under the left leg. There is an eclipse of the Moon, which is not connected with the Sun, the right leg of the gallows.


It may be this way or something similar, but what is clear is that the multiple glyphs of the script go far beyond the narrow framework of a language.